This MSN article discusses the insane cost of childcare in the US today. Come on, it’s basically paying rent on your kids until they go to high school and 4 years later you really get to pay. (Especially with the financial aid you’ll be enjoying as a dual-income home)
“With child care for infants running as high as $14,650 a year and care for a 4-year-old in a licensed center as high as $10,920, child-care costs have outpaced what the average family spends on food, according to the National Association of Child Care Resources and Referral Agencies.”
-The child-care crisis msn.com
When both parents work, families need someone to mind the kids. But with costs as high as $14,650 a year, day care can swallow most of one parent’s wages.
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Momsrising is a website dedicated to empowering women as mothers, consumers, professionals and citizens.. They’ve sucessfully organized and mobilized women against companies that are guilty of disriminating against mothers as employees, poisonous pacifiers etc.
They have great Open Flexible work area on their website that can help any woman looking for a family firendly career understand what she needs to look for in a job and an employer.
“Open, Flexible Work” is the term we use in the MOTHER agenda to refer to workplace practices that accommodate both work and family needs. Flexible work arrangements give parents the ability to work more flexibly, regardless of the person’s level in the organization. Factory workers, middle managers, and executive level employees all need to be able to structure their work lives in a way that allows them to meet both business and family needs.
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